AFTER VIOLENCE: 3R, RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION ...

to your feelings, if you have reasons to be mad at someone then
tell him/her, etc. Whatever cathartic function that may have for
the sender of such verbal violence, there is a receiver, a human
being, at the other end and the impact on that person becomes the
invisible effect of a highly egoistic psycho-strategy. Shout to
ba tree, a mountain. Or still better: have an inner dialogue.
88. For very many comments see Conflict Transformation By
Peaceful Means, mini-version United Nations, 1998, maxi-version on
the TRANSCEND web-site www.transcend.org.
89. Israel/Palestine being one; Northern Ireland being another,
with John Major behaving as politicians often tend to do, and Tony
Blair understanding the potentials of the situation created.
90. For one analysis of Gandhi's approach see Johan Galtung, The
Way is the Goal: Gandhi Today (Ahmedabad 1992/98), 224 pp.
91. See PBPM, Part II, chapter 5, "Nonviolent conflict
transformation".
92. To test these conditions try them on a case of violence to
the human body: amputation. The wound is festering, there is
gangrene, even threat to life. All less violent methods have
been tried. The amputation is made as far out on the limb as
possible. And it is not celebrated as a triumph for medicine
however competently done; the implication is that medicine has
nothing better to come up with. Today, but the search is on!
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